The Rise and Fall of FC Kaiserslautern: What Went Wrong?
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Founded in June 1900, FC Kaiserslautern spent almost half a decade in Germany's footballing wilderness before the arrival of Fritz Walter, his brother Ottmar Walter, and the rest of the Kaiserslautern stars who inspired West Germany to success at the 1954 World Cup.
Kaiserslautern only spent one season outside of the Bundesliga prior to the 2006 World Cup, enjoying a second wave of success by winning two Bundesliga titles in the 1990s.
Now, FC Kaiserslautern are in the third tier of German football / soccer, not far off dropping into the fourth tier, and facing financial ruin. In this video, HITC Sevens takes a look at where it all went wrong for the ninth most successful club in German football.
Is it ironic that a World Club brings Kaiserslautern into limelight (the 1954 with the Miracle of Bern) but then another World Club also leads to this club's downfall (by the debts taken for paying the Renovation of Stadium for the 2006... which is named after said Legend who created that Miracle in the first place)?
Thanks for the Fun Fact though. Cheers.
This human can think
It really is. It is absolutly hurting Fritz Walter would have never fought for this stadium and the world cup 2006 in Kaiserslautern if he knew what it would mean for the club. He always wanted the best for his heart and soul, the 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
That's true but it wasn't just the worldcup that brouth all the financial problems... it all started after they won the german championship in 1998 cause then they still wanted to compeet with bayern in the following years. That was a huge mistake cause they really weren't a top team then and still bought a lot players who weren't in their prime anymore for way too much money! They also had a lot of "dirty" presidents which stole money from the club then...
I'm a Kaiserslautern fan and I'm living in germany so I'm sorry if my english isn't that good :) but I just wanted to bring those facts out too
@@janikus7853 guter Beitrag hoffentlich geht es bald bergauf!
Blame Us the BIg KMC Air Force Army brats for sinking your club FIFA did this to cater to us to show off the Lolcows that are the US men's football team we admit full responsibility
As a Kaiserslautern fan, this Video hits pretty close to home. I am aware of our History, but everytime you see what happend, its just a rolercoster of emotions. Anyway thanks for the good video about my beloved club. Cheers and greatings from Kaiserslautern
Edit: Maby you should do a follow up Video, cause in past 2 years, the club turned things around. After coming desperatly close to Relegation out of professionell Football in 20/21, to beeing Promoted in the most nervewrecking fashion in a season were nobody even thought about Promotion in 21/22, playing one hell of a season in the 2. Bundesliga, beeing the best freshly Promoted site in almost a decade.
Things changed alot in the past two years and only for the better.
Even our Stadium is packed again on game day, with around 40k visitors at each home game. (Mind you this is more than 8 Bundesliga clubs)
I went to Kaiserslautern back in 2017 for a pre season friendly for Derby County. Its a lovely city and you have a beautiful stadium
@@dcfc2379 Thank you, I was at that game too. Sure its nice, but way to big for our needs and waaay too expensiv.
@@Pugnare-et-vincereyou’ll be back where you belong soon my friend
@@lewisyoung6038 I highly doubt that. 3 games, 0 goals, 1 point. Gonna be a hell of a season again....
@@Pugnare-et-vincere 3:0 ohne Götze 🥳🥳
The club has such a huge meaning to Germany. With the 1954 world cup title, they gave a lot of pride to all west germans (and even east germans, too). And all five players of the club being in Switzerland that time played in the final. Fritz Walter is seen as a man who built up the nation morally as the moral was devasted after the war.
Did they play in Switzerland?
@@maskedraider9808 Yes the World cup 1954 was there.
@@pascalplenge1882 thank you. I thought the club play in Switzerland
Deservedly devastated
@@stevebuscemi8411 thats right but not part of the topic.
It's so sad to see what is currently happening to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. (Im a Mainz fan).
Very sad indeed. Kaiserslautern will always be my favorite German team. I think it will take more than 10 years before they are back in 1. Bundesliga :(
Gibt nichts schöneres als den Club am Ende zu sehen. Waldhof lässt grüßen
Äääh fick dich
@@MrLolmanno Absteiger
@@philschmidt26 Haha junge 😂 Du denkst auch, dass Waldhof aufsteigt. Komplett lost.
Rise and fall of Malaga, when they had van nistelrooy, kameni, cazorla, Demichelis, toulalan, joaquin, monreal, Baptista, caballero, isco, rondon with pellegrini as manager
TJ House shout 👍
TJ House yes!
Wow, what a brilliantly investigated and edited Video!
I'm not even a Kaiserslautern fan, just a German, but those background story videos are really valuable to give the football world a little image of our history. Thank you very much, Alfie!🙏🏽🤗
Day 8 of requesting American Samoa all time XI who played domestically
#ThePeoplesChannel
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What's so interrupted about it?
That's just what I wanna know 🤣🤣
I’m not a Bournemouth fan but what they did was incredible would be nice to see a Bournemouth style documentary
Thank you for the Video. It means much for us 👹❤️👹🇩🇪
AUF GEHTS LAUTERN⚪🔴❤
Werder Bremen wasn't in the Second Division in 1996/97 (we havent been since 1981) Second Place has been Wolfsburg in that season. Still a great video, i miss Kaiserslautern in the Bundesliga..
FC Twente's 2009/10 title winning team. Where are they now?
Grew up in K-town (military brat)
There is so much history behind this team and some star studded players have put on that kit in the past, it's truly a shame what happened to them and hopefully they drag themselves back up to the top flight sooner than later.
Also Wankdorf is an epic name.
That's mannheim fans
And the fact that young boys play there. You couldn’t write it!
They have so much potential as a club. If they could fill that Stadium. Just need a winning mentality on the pitch. Always go 1.FCK in Fifa. And bought FM 21 to get them back to where they belong. First attempt, I finished 4th and 2nd season 5th and they sacked me. Funny eh.
Then I started again. Played 4-3-3 wde DM. Went through the liga.3 unbeaten promoted first season. Computer games we can dream, with one game left in Bundesliga 2 lying 2nd 1 pt behind Augsburg and 1 pt ahead of Mainz 05. It is only a game, but would love to see Kaiserlautern FC in the Bundesliga again.
I have been waiting for this!👍👍
Was it so hard to find actual fotos of Ottmar Walter? Well, at least he is in some of them, I guess.
Thank you man, u couldnt explain better. As a lautern fan it means a lot to me because we, the fans, never left the club. As u said, 19k fans per game watch us, and when uts a big game, its almost full every time. But the stadium, despite being beautiful, fucked us heavily. In my opinion, the city should just conceed the stadium to us, so therefore we wouldnt have to pay a lot. WESTKURVE FUR LEBEN🔴⚪❤👹
These types of videos are my fav but I prefer it when their is a happy ending 😂 sadly in a lot of cases that’s not what happens tho, thankfully it was for my club (Rangers fc) and the worst is behind us I can’t believe myself how far we gave came
Do a video on football stadium s being built
Well done on 260k!
i am their manager(football manager).Just wanted to check about their history.Brought them back to bundesliga btw.
Would be interested to see a return to this now that Kaiserslautern is on the brink of returning to the top flight
Do a video on 1860 Munich
I'd do anything to have them win a bundesliga again for my grandfather who was a kid growing up over there. Even his cat is named Fritz after Fritz-Walter
2:11 the guy at the left looks like Simon from the Sidemen
4:27 I'll just take this opportunity to say that Cuba finished above Germany in a World Cup once
Really cool vid
You can't mention the Ramstein air base without mentioning that it gave its name to German metal legends Rammstein!
7 best cr7 and Leo Messi match performances
The movie miracle of bern is class
You should do one about the season juve went down and why
Nice Video! Greetings from Kaiserslautern. Nur der FCK!
This vid has been out for about 1 minute, but i can already tell it wont get the views it deserves just like the donetsk one
Ok
Yes
Because most of the people only care about the topteams🤢🤮 Not true footballfans then IMO
Nice profile pic
LYN PENDRY!!!!!!!!
I miss them in the Bundesliga.... Beautiful stadium, crazy fans (in a good way) and shitload of tradition.
Yes, I was there in the 1970's, and they were damals the best fans in Germany.
like avatar ??
Can u do the best 6 foot 2 right footed left backs in Mozambique’s 7th division
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🤣🤣🤣😂 brilliant
No maybe San Marino's 5'6 No.9s in their 7th tier
boring its totally clear who that would be
Daniel Ndugma playing for Natal United B
I’ve done Career modes with Kaiserslautern in Fifa, really like them for a rtg
Saad Mehdi might do that next. I’m doing Sunderland this year, after doing Hamburg last year
I'm doing right now, since I support them.
It's really entertaining.
i did Ingolstadt
I did KFC Uredingen
Same
Rise of LASK linz from bankruptcy and third tier to Europa league and potentially an Austrian title
And what happened to their rival?
@@geraldclydeabella3350 Do you support Bastia?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha never win from Salzburg bye bye last is just level 40 while Salzburg is 100
@@GuiSLB69 No That a Old Corsica Flag, Why about Bastia?
@@geraldclydeabella3350 because Bastia is from Corsica and I believe I've already seen you commenting in a YT video about a former Bastia keeper who made a run to the oponnent's half way line, I don't remember his name, only know is that he played for Bastia, Racing Club de France and Gazelec Ajaccio!So, am I right?
"...almost comparable to the Premier League title won by Leicester..." - This is a prime example of the Premier League bias you see so often in football videos these days. Both from an emotional standpoint and as footballing performance, Kaiserslautern's achievement ranks significantly higher than Leicester's. I don't want to take anything away from the Foxes' unbelievable title run. The competition in today's Premier League is incredibly strong and there is almost no room to break the top club's reign. However, Leicester did spend freaking 40.000.000€ that summer and another 23.000.000€ the year before that. Not much in comparison to Chelsea, ManCity and so on. But a ton in general to work with and sign players like Kante. So obviously they were able to snatch up great talent. To put things into perspective, Leicester spent more that year than Bayern Munich has 16 times out of the last 20 years! With this sort of investment power you are obviously bound to generate some success. Kaiserslautern on the other hand won the title as a newly promoted side. To get a feel for that kind of scope you would need to imagine Norwich winning the title last season. Not everything great only happens in freaking England! Aside from Kaiserslautern 1998, you might want to check the Bundesliga relegation battle of 1999, or Schalke's 4-minute title of 2001.
Ive supported Fck for years l have the silver signet ring plus the red devil necklace all sent to me free from my FCK friend
You should do the 'fall of Bolton'. From being in the premier league to getting relegated to league 2.
Simple:
1. Accumulate tons of debt during the tail end of Eddie Davies' ownership
2. Sell to hucksters
3. Get crippled by debt payments
Sunderland too into league 1
They could stay up!
I remember a couple of years back my team Brentford played a pre-season friendly against them. Despite the game being meaningless and in a completely different country they completely sold out the away end and were louder than any other team I’ve known.
Yep that's Lautern. On some games in the 3. Liga they have more Away fans than the opposing team has Home fans.
I know cause I was there. Still to this day one of my favorite Away day memories. Maby some say we meet in a competetive game. Good luck to you and Brentfort FC.
Me: 'Checks off 'Get my comment made into a HITC Sevens video' on 'Things to do Before I Graduate High School'.
Thanks Alfie!
Bro I've been following your rise to stardom...don't forget us when you are famous
@@sbongadlamini388 I like to keep a low profile, but still thanks bro!
Well done mate.
Perry you legend.
I remember Kaiserslautern being a top team in the late 90’s, early 00’s. It was them and Leverkusen that became the main challengers to Bayern Munich in that period.
Schalke as well and Bremen.
1990 Bayern wins league, Kaiserslautern wins the Cup
1991 Kaiserslautern wins league, Bremen wins the Cup
1992 Stuttgart wins league, Hannover wins the Cup, Bremen wins UEFA Cup Winners Cup
1993 Bremen wins the league, Leverkusen wins the Cup
1994 Bayern wins league, Bremen wins the Cup
1995 Dortmund wins league, Gladbach wins the Cup
1996 Dortmund wins league, Kaiserslautern wins the Cup, Bayern wins UEFA Cup, Germany wins the Euros
1997 Bayern wins the league, Stuttgart wins the Cup, Schalke wins UEFA Cup, Dortmund wins Champions League
1998 Kaiserslautern wins league, Bayern wins the Cup
1999 Bayern wins league, Bremen wins the Cup
2000 Bayern wins double
2001 Bayern wins league and Champions League, Schalke wins the Cup
2002 Dortmund wins league, Schalke wins the Cup
2003 Bayern wins double
2004 Bremen wins double
Bayern 6 leagues, 3 Cups, 2 European Cups
Dortmund 3 leagues, 1 European Cup
Bremen 2 leagues, 4 Cups, 1 European Cup
Kaiserslautern 2 leagues, 2 Cups
Stuttgart 1 league, 1 Cup
Schalke 2 Cups, 1 European Cup
Leverkusen, Gladbach, Hannover 1 Cup each
They were the 9 most successful between 1990 to 2004.
Danilo Hentschel thanks for the info. I always thought Leverkusen won more than they actually did. I remember that ‘ nearly ‘ season they had in 01/02 when they nearly won the league and reached the champions league final.
@@mrkipling2201 they also reached the Cup final and lost it. Plus a core of their players lost the World Cup final, too. That's where the names Vize-Kusen or Neverkusen come from.
Werder Bremen's success between 1988 to 2009 with
3 league wins, 5 Cup wins and one European Cup is often overlooked.
There could be a story about their decline since 2009, as well.
Danilo Hentschel there might be. Bremen won the cup winners cup didn’t they?? I had forgotten that Leverkusen had some players in the German World Cup team in 2002. Mind you didn’t lucio play for Leverkusen and won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002??
@@mrkipling2201 Yeah. Bremen beat Monaco with Wenger, Henry or Vieria in 1992.
2002 World Cup final was packed with Leverkusen players:
Neuville, Ramelow, Schneider, Ballack (suspended), Nowotny, Kirsten on German side.
Lucio and Zé Roberto on Brazilian side.
Even Rudi Völler, the German coach, was still working for Leverkusen indirectly.
Finally a video about FCK! Thanks man. Maybe you can also do one about the lack of succes from France team in Europe, and small cities in Europe with big footballteams
3:20 He liked playing in the rain because he got malaria in WW2 and therefore couldn't play as well in the heat.
i'm from kaiserslautern! great video! but maybe you could have described in more detail how close we got between 2012 and 2015 to returning to the bundesliga. In 14/15 we were one win away from confirming promotion with 4 games to go against fairly easy opposition. we lost 2 and drew 2 dropping into 4th place. afterwards the best players, like leipzigs orban, leverkusens demirbay and napolis younes left and we fell into midtable and then relegation. it's pretty tough to think back to how close we got to being back in the bundesliga and likely fixing our financial issues, while we now sit in lower midtable in the 3 bundesliga.
I am also from K'town, was born there, raised and grew-up there, and left for good when I was 21. I keep very fond childhood/teen memories of KL and the beautiful region. I still follow KL's team until today, watching their games. It's a tragedy what was done to that club by Friedrich and Wischemann - they basically destroyed it.
I am from Jordan and came to Kaiserslautern last September as an exchange student.
I absolutely love this city and I think my heart will always be in it!
I was never interested in Football (even though it is the most popular sport in my country), until recently; so I only became interested in football after moving to Kaiserslautern. :)
Last time I was this early, someone actually paid over £30m for Andy Carroll
The last time I was this early, a 30 million pound transfer was actually significant in the world of football! 😂
🤔 35
I mocked Andy Carroll once for that ridiculous transfer fee a few years ago in a casino, he was not happy to say the least
Last time I was early man Utd were a good side
He was worth the money he scored 9 goals. Of which won a trophy then recouped half of the fee. #Hecost15m
Thank you very much for this video it means much to me that you Show the tragic story of my club.
Kilmarnock Fc/ Kaiserslautern 💙❤️
looking forward to visit you in Kilmarnock ^^
Now that MJ is away we should do a 2 leg game, would love to go over to Germany, always see the Germans over here every year
So glad you made this video. I literally just started a Kaiserslautern career mode.
I'm not sure if you have done this (and I can't remember it over the past couple of years), but I would really love to see a video on the history of Athletic Club's Basque only policy. It is incredibly rare in the modern game and also has great political significance due to the massive pressure on the club under the Franco regime. Love your videos as always Alfie and thanks for standing up for the minorities in this clickbait world by giving us some real, academic-styled content!
I guess Tifo Football has done a video on it
@@Michael-yo3vu they have ;)
There was a cycling team, Euskatel-Euskadi, that had the same policy. They had a very strong showing in the early 2000's, winning Tour stages and Vuelta's. They usually had a problem with guys leaving for bigger teams, and they ended up folding in 2013, as the government pulled funding (mostly due to the rampant use of drugs in the sport) even though cycling is very popular in the region.
Under Franco the team was praised because they played with 11 Spaniards
You missed when Killie and Kaiserslautern became great friends and started to go to each others games and became eachothers own fans
Top managers at discovering talent
Eg Guardiola and Bousquets
Fergie and Beck's Scholes Ronaldo etc
Keep requesting bro
Wenger found Ronaldo but otherwise good idea
Ilosealot Ilosealot 🙄
Pep didn't discover busquets and Ferguson didn't discover Scholes or Beckham
@@user-gw5df2br5k bruh what? Busquets and Pedro were Barca B nobody's before pep's arrival
Could be in for a part 2, Dirk Schuster is doing Dirk Schuster things with the club right now
I think I found my new favorite German club
Get fritz Walter an icon card in fifa why the hell does he not have one
at least they got promoted back to the 2.Bundesliga today.
Wow seeing a video about this club is amazing. Great topic. Thank you!
When I lived in the American military community in Wiesbaden and Mainz-Kastel, Kaiserslautern was simply known as "K-Town". Always struck me as strange that we couldn't take the time to pronounce our host country's cities, but words like "Tallahassee" and "Oklahoma" were pronounced fully like it wasn't shit.
Oklahoma city is called okc
Tallahassee is just 4 sylables
KostasNotKolsas so is Kaiserslautern
I’m American and lived in Kaiserslautern for seven years. I’d say only about half the Americans I met there referred to it as “K-Town.”
@@hchastain16 That's super interesting. Are you in the military community out there, or are you a civilian? We moved back to the US in 2007, so I'd assume things have changed. Now that I think of it, though, the Americans I knew that had been stationed there used the proper name. Maybe it's something to do with seeing the name on Autobahn signs and stuff.
I lived there to in an amerixan vase and we went to a game
As a FCK-Fan I hope we will rise again. The club has the unofficial motto: Unzerstörbar, which translates to "indestructible".
Fall and rise of Borussia Mönchengladbach?
@VINCENT BRUCKNER Hsv, Werder of Vfb then? Both 3 are huge clubs, and should be finishing top 10 every season. But now, 2/3 are not even playing in the 1.Bundesliga
@VINCENT BRUCKNER i meant the time leading up to the appointment of lucien favre in 2010 and the turnaround. From 18th to 4th in 1 and a half years
There is no club that has risen and falleen as often as Fortuna Duesseldorf.
We need Kaiserslauten back in the Bundesliga.
Now we're back on track...👹🔥
As a German who is Fan of Another 3rd Division Team (FC Magdeburg) and with familymembers who live near Kaiserslautern and following the 1. FCK it was very interesting to hear the story from an englishman. Good job
The fall of Portsmouth?
wot ? who ?
they cant be as dreck as those palatines XD
Sup
Whoever disliked this video failed in history class.
Why would 1. FC Kaiserslautern have to pay themselves for the stadium renovation when the DFB or whoever was in charge chose it as one of the host stadiums for the 2006 WC? Especially since they don't even own the stadium! That should have been paid by the DFB and the state/city, and MAYBE a bit by the club if they agreed to it. Absolutely insane.
Do a video about Tigres UANL in mexico. They have risen up a lot in the past decade and have a very passionate fanbase..including myself. Keep up the good work !!
I lived in German in 1991, just outside of K-Town. The area then, as alluded to, has the largest concentration of Americans outside of America. It feels like America more than Germany. Everyone seemed to speak English (it made it really hard to try and speak German, because it was just easier to do it in English) There are English TV channels, radio stations, fast food joints. I mean, it made it easy to live there for sure. That year, FCK was the Bundesliga. I always wondered what the deal was with them, they were so fanatically supported by all the Germans I knew.
(I was not in the Military, I was working for a cycling company and was racing bikes as an amateur.)
5:16 wankdoor stadium
The rise and fall of Bolton Wanderers: What went wrong?
@Luke Shaw's Daddy ???
Thanks so much for this video on the Red Devils of the Betzenberg ("die roten Teufel vom Betzenberg").
1:00am here in Los Angeles! Stay safe everyone! 🙏🏽
Kaiserslautern Betzenberg I miss you👹😭🙏
So basically FIFA indirectly destroy the club as a result of Germany hosting the 2006 world cup.
Lautre gebbs uff die Fress!
Small technical annotation: during their first stint at the second tier, they weren't 10 points ahead of Werder Bremen, as stated in the video, but of VfL Wolfsburg. Werder Bremen was (as of now, if the Corona season would have continued it may change) only once in the second tier in 1980. VfL Wolfsburg has been promoted the same year as Kaiserslautern bounced back and stayed in the top flight ever since.
How the mighty have fallen
The 7 best players who changed position mid career
The 7 best players who switched their strong/ weak foot mid career
The biggest problem after being the Champion in 1998 was the transfer-policy. We just bought expensive players, gave them a lot of money but the didnt perform like they should. Those transfers just erase the money and were deadly too. But the stadium really killed us after the World Cup.
And to be honest our team this season isnt that bad but they just do not perform the way they could. We won 5 games in a row but in the last 5 games we didnt win any game. And with our goalkeeper going to Leverkusen and our top scorer most likely to leave too next season could be really hard.
But I love it that finally someone outside of germany makes a video about our lovely club 😁😁
Fuck almost comparable to leicester !!!
This was so much bigger we were just promoted up ....
two years later they are challenging for promotion in their first season back in the 2.Bundesliga the will be fine
Great video although as an Eintracht Frankfurt I hate them I want them back in the Bundesliga because I miss the games against Kaiserslautern because of the hatred between both set of fans
It is heartbreaking to see Kaiserslautern in that situation but it gives a nice feeling to see that it is remembered in so many brains out there. Nice vid mate and pretty solid pronunciation of the german words ;D keep it up
Love from Germany and from a kaiserslautern fan :)
Make a Video on
DFB Pokal v FA Cup v Copa Del Rey
Which is better
My Hometown Club😔1.FCK👹I have a Autogramm from Fritz Walter when I was 5 in 2000. My Dad and he was good friends
Next Fall of Hamburg SV
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Do this to Hamburg SV
It would be nice if you coudl make a video about the 2000/01 Bundesliga title decider.
IMO these story-type history videos are the most enjoyable on the channel, documenting peculiarities in a specific club's past. Keep up the good work Alfie! 😁
More of this :)
Did a Kaiserslautern save on FM19 and it was the best I've ever done. Hope they come back up soon
Great video! I managed Die roten Teufel as my first team on Football Manager 2020. I resign after four Bundesliga titels in a row and winning the CL in 2029.
Go through each team and pick the best ever player from each continent.
Barcelona 2008-9 or inter Milan's *Treble* winning squad where are they now.
Kaiserslautern's fall makes me very sad. I'm not a die-hard supporter of them, but I've been there twice when my team (Hannover 96) played there and their fans are very nice people. I have very fond memories and their arena is awe-inspiring. Their supporters have gone through a lot and it's a shame to see them where they are right now. They all deserve so much better.
How does he come up with these ideas
Football is a big sport, with so many stories. Besides, his subscribers suggest some videos to him.
Lol why are you surprised
Do a video for 1860 Munich
Did anyone notice the initials
FCK
A perfect fifa career mode team to use!